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## Using Other Windows, Editors, and Tools: Overview

PC-DMIS provides you with an assortment of windows, editors, and other aids that can help make your measurement routine more productive.

These include:

- The Edit window, which has already been discussed in the "Using the Edit Window" chapter

- A Report window for displaying measurement results (see "Using the Report Window")

- A script editor that is used to create scripts in the BASIC programming language (see "Using the Basic Script Editor")

- An editor for creating and displaying interactive and forms and dialog boxes (see "Using the Form Editor")

- An inspection report editor that is used to quickly view and make small editing changes to your automatically-generated inspection reports (see "Viewing an Inspection Report")

- An interface for quick generation of simple measurement routines (see "Using the Quick Start Interface")

- A Settings window that is used to make quick edits to frequently-used values (see "Using the Settings Window")

- A Preview window that is used to preview your measurements before accepting them (see "Using the Preview Window")

- A window used to create and store marked sets of features for future execution (see "Using the Marked Sets Window")

- A Probe Readouts window that shows the current probe's location and other information (see "Using the Probe Readouts Window")

- A Status window that displays the current status of an operation or feature information (see "Using the Status Window")

- A probe toolbox that is used to perform probe manipulations (see "Using the Probe Toolbox")

- A dockable color bar that shows the different tolerance zones and dimension colors (see "Using the Dimensions Colors Window")

- A dockable Q-DAS Data Editor window to modify K-field data for their Q-DAS statistical results (see "Using the Q-DAS Data Editor Window")

- A dialog box that is used to select an active tip (see "Selecting a Tip")

- A path viewer showing the path your probe takes during measurement routine execution (see "Viewing Path Lines")

- A CAD Information dialog box to display information about a CAD element in the Graphic Display window (see "Viewing CAD Information" in the "Editing the CAD Display" chapter)

- A CAD Import History dialog box to display a history of CAD models imported into the current measurement routine (see "Viewing CAD Import History")